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Clear Not Clever
Team Roc8 is expanding. Swapnil shares his playbook of going all-in on writing and that we should keep things clear instead of clever. We discuss the end of an era wit...
Knowledge Workers
Swapnil is internalizing that putting others ahead of yourself is not a sustainable strategy. Mukul released the mobile app of Appointo and currently exploring differe...
Travel Routine and SaaS Acquisitions
We discuss our travel routines and things we consider while traveling. We also discuss SaaS acquisitions and share our thoughts from the buyer’s as well as seller’s po...
Moving Goalposts
Mukul is iterating by applying learnings from his last trip and staying in one place in Phuket for 2 months. We touch on the socializing aspect of traveling solo as in...
Felix's Consistency and Deep Work Weekly
We start with patting ourselves on our back for getting back on track. Staying consistent is hard and satisfying like a dopamine hit. We touch on how our college frien...
Handling Rejections and Activity-Based Travel
It's placement season at Roc8. We talk about how people are not well-equipped to deal with rejection and ways to solve this at scale. Mukul is looking forward to tryin...
Settling Down in a City and Making New Friends
Roc8 team had their first offsite which was pending for a long time and hosted a fun public meetup on a 90s nostalgia theme with games like pen fight. Mukul is going t...
Slow Nomad
We discuss the traditional notion while traveling that you have to do something every day, but do you really need to? How about if you rent out a place for a month or ...
Broadening Perspectives and Copycats
Mukul talks about his Airbnb experiences which is a good way to get a local authentic taste of the city. Placement season has started at Roc8, wherein companies are co...
Async Work And Incentives Gone Wrong
Mukul moved to Lisbon and is figuring out a balance between work and travel. We talk about how being a solo traveler is analogous to life without a job. Then we move t...
Sloth Philosophy
We talk about the four pillars of sloth philosophy, challenges in writing fiction vs non-fiction, our music tastes, and end with a section on what's the rush, anyway?
Digital Nomad Lifestyle and Influencer Marketing
We talk about Mukul's plans to try out a digital nomad lifestyle over the next 2 months, a user journey for a Shopify subscription analytics app, the importance of tak...
Roc8 Tech Stack and Time Travel Shows
We discuss how Roc8 is entirely run on no-code tools and Appointo didn't have a landing page for the first 6 months. Tech is not our USP; our USP is iterating fast on ...
Relationship with Money and Attack on Titan
We talk about remote work hacks, optimizing learnings vs earnings, our relationship with money, treating this podcast as therapy, and end with a nice newsletter recomm...
All About Board Games
We nerd out on board games, covering the different versions of Catan, Dungeon Mayhem card game, Blitz where everyone plays at once instead of the regular turn-based me...
Celebrating New Hire at Roc8 and SidePanda Crossing $200K ARR
We discuss the work of a manager in the context of a new hire at Roc8, see a demo of Mukul's new mic to induce FOMO in Swapnil to get one too, and celebrate SidePanda ...
Going Slow with Yatharth
In our 10th episode, we got a surprise guest for you. Yatharth worked as a frontend engineer for over 5 years before going indie in 2020. He is currently exploring sys...
Signpanda in Review and Value Systems
We start with the Shopify review process, their webhook architecture, and the GDPR compliant endpoints. Then we discuss the pros and cons of doubling down on existing ...
New Year Resolutions
We discuss how Goa has so much untapped potential and the issues preventing us to work from there over a longer duration, second-order effects of movies and TV shows, ...
New Experiments at Roc8 and Hedging Bets
We discuss the new experiments at Roc8, challenges in the non-tech hiring space, hedging bets as a time investor, the addiction of the 0-to-1 journey, our college hack...
Signpanda and 12 Favorite Problems
We start with discussing a digital signature solution for Shopify and then reflect on the changes in us from last year. We also appreciate that our work is play now. W...
Life is a Role-Playing Game
We discuss the AppSumo deal, Pronoia, the fact that grownups like numbers, some deep thoughts like you are who you choose to be and there's no real need for anger, and...
Pricing and Reademy
We discuss the pros and cons of monthly vs annual pricing, the upcoming version of Appointo which is platform-independent, recreating school library period vibes via R...
Plato's Cave and Antireads
We talk about The Mom's Test in action at Appointo, how we can get out of our bubbles, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and follow up on the lowlights project discussed l...
Lowlights and Laserpanda
We talk about how our last week went, share lowlights, discuss what's next for Appointo & Roc8, and brainstorm on a new potential idea: Laserpanda.
Getting Out of Comfort Zone
The first episode of our podcast! We talk about our journeys so far, why we chose this path, and that going slow is a luxury.
Hello World
Welcome to the going slow podcast! where we discuss our product journeys and also have casual discussions around life, universe, and everything in between.